Biographical Fiction
The Sand-Reckoner (Tom Doherty Associates Books)
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Gillian Bradshaw takes the title of her novel about Archimedes from one of the ancient thinker’s own works. It’s difficult to ...Read Review
Sign-Talker: The Adventure of George Drouillard on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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While the story of the exploration and settling of the American West by white Americans in the face of stubborn resistance by red ...Read Review
Ashes of Britannia (Warrior Queen)
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“From the ashes of Britannia arose a legend,” and her name was Boadicea, Druid priestess and Queen of the Celtic Iceni. This third ...Read Review
Heartsong of Charging Elk
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The considerable power and impact generated in this novel come partly from the actuality behind Welch’s fiction. In 1889 a young Oglala Sioux (...Read Review
Queenmaker: A Novel of King David’s Queen
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This Biblical historical focuses on a little known Queen; Michal, daughter of King Saul, wife to King David. At first we can empathize ...Read Review
Swords Across the Thames (Warrior Queen)
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Alfred the Great of Wessex marries his daughter Lae to Aethelred, ruler of the neighboring Mercians. Trained as a warrior, Lae joins her ...Read Review
Unveiled: No 1: No. 1 (Lineage of Grace, 1 Series)
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The first in her series of five ancestresses of Jesus, Unveiled is an easy-to-read tale of Tamar. Tamar, a Canaanite, marries cruel Er, ...Read Review
The Words of Bernfrieda: A Chronicle of Hauteville
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“The past is interesting only when it foreshadows greatness,” explains the monk Gaufredus Malaterra to this novel’s narrator, Bernfrieda, who questions why ...Read Review
Awen: A Novel of Early Medieval Wales
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May 4th, 793 AD. Cynfarch mab Cadeyrn Penllyn, called Brys, appears for trial in the court of his foster father, Brochfael King of Powys. ...Read Review
Dorcas Good: The Diary of a Salem Witch
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Choosing to tell the tale of the 1692 Salem witches as a diary written by one of them seemed like a brilliant idea to ...Read Review